Sighting for September 7, 2015
Ahmet Baytas
MONTCLAIR
Essex County, NJ
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
- Cabbage White 6
- Clouded Sulphur 4
- Orange Sulphur 3
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 7
- Variegated Fritillary 2
- Pearl Crescent 5
- American Lady 1
- Silver-spotted Skipper 1
- Wild Indigo Duskywing 4
- Common Checkered-Skipper 1
- Peck's Skipper 30+
- Sachem 3
Variegated Fritillary
Variegated Fritillary
Silver-spotted Skipper
Sachem
Peck's Skipper
Peck's Skipper
Peck's Skipper
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Common Checkered-Skipper
Clouded Sulphur
Cabbage White
Most of the butterflies were seen at the Presby Memorial Iris Gardens, Upper Montclair. Peck’s Skippers were everywhere. The first Variegated Fritillary sighting I know of in Essex County in well over a decade. My third Common Checkered-Skipper ever in town, all in September. There were at least three mating pairs of Peck’s Skippers, a mating pair of Cabbage Whites, a mating pair of Pearl Crescents, and two mating pairs of Clouded Sulphurs (both involving white females) in the garden. Labor Day, I guess?